<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Apologies for cross-posting.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">DEADLINE EXTENDED: CEC-TAL'13</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">International Colloquium for students Researchers in Natural Language Processing and its Applications</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">September 6th, 2013, Montreal, Canada</font></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><font face="times new roman, new york,
times, serif"><br></font></div><div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/call%20fo%20paper.htm" style="color: rgb(40, 98, 197); outline: 0px;">https://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/call%20fo%20paper.htm</a><br></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Important Dates</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Submission Deadline : May 5th 2013 23:59 (EST Time)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Notification: 15 June 2013</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Camera Ready due : 12 July
2013</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Conference : September 6th 2013</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Send your conference related questions to :</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">zaghouani.wajdi@courrier.uqam.ca</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Call for papers</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">The first Colloquium for Students Researchers in Natural Language</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Processing and its Applications
(CEC-TAL'13).</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">The first colloquium for Students Researchers in Natural Language</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Processing and its Applications (CEC-TAL'13) will be held in Montreal on</font> September 6th 2013.</div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">The goal of this colloquium is to bring together researchers from related</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">disciplines (language resources development, analysis and generation,</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">natural language processing and NLP application) and experts from industry</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif">and companies that deploy extraction methods and knowledge management to</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">provide quality work and to exchange and fertilize new ideas.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Types of communication</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Authors are invited to submit two types of communications:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">1) Articles presenting original research.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new
york, times, serif">2) Articles presenting a point of view on the state of research in NLP,</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">based on a solid experience in the field.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">3) Articles presenting a dissertation ongoing work.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Accepted papers will be presented as an oral communication.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Communication (in English or French) will be for 20 minutes, followed by 10</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">minute for questions.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman,
new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Terms of submission</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Articles should be submitted in Pdf format only without a mention of the</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">author (s) or its affiliate and will absolutely use the format available at:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">LATEX</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/cectal2013-latex.rar</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new
york, times, serif">Microsoft Word</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">http://www.qatar.cmu.edu/~wajdiz/cec-tal/FormatCEC-TAL.doc</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Submissions that do not exceed 4 pages will be considered as short papers.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Submissions between 4 and 8 pages will be considered as long papers.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Articles must be submitted by EasyChair :</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cectal13 </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new
york, times, serif">Selection criteria</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Authors must be PhD student(s), Master student(s) or young doctor(s) who</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">defended their thesis within the last three years.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Authors are invited to submit original research that has not been published</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">previously. Submissions will be reviewed by at least two experts in the</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">field. We considered in particular:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman,
new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> - The importance and originality of the contribution.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> - Correcting the scientific and technical content.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> - Critical discussion of the results, particularly in relation to other</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> work in the field.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> - The status of work in the context of international research.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> - The organization and clarity of presentation.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> - The adequacy of the conference themes.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new
york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">the opinion of the program, presentations will be made only in oral form.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Terms of publication</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Authors of accepted papers will subsequently be invited to submit their</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">articles for publication in the Proceedings of CEC-TAL'13.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif">Authors can write their articles in both official languages of Canada</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">(English or French).</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Program committee</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Mona Diab (George Washington University)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Lyne Da Sylva (University of Montreal)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Philippe Langlais (University of Montreal)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal)</font></div><div><font
face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Marie Claude L'Homme (University of Montreal)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Abdelaati Hawwari (Columbia University)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Houda Bouamor (Carnegie Mellon University)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Lamia Hadrich Belguith (University of Sfax-Tunisia)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Nadi Tomeh (Columbia University)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Bilel Gargouri (University of Sfax-Tunisia)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Maher Jaoua (University of Sfax-Tunisia)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Faiez Gargouri (University of Sfax-Tunisia)</font></div><div><font face="times new
roman, new york, times, serif"> Mariem Ellouze Khemakhem (University of Sfax-Tunisia)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (University of Sfax-Tunisia)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Ludovic Jean-Louis (University of Montreal)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Asma Ben Abacha (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg )</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Wajdi Zaghouani (Carnegie Mellon University)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Adel Jebali (Concordia University)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Fatiha Sadat (UQAM)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Mohamed Mahdi Boudabous (University of Safx-Tinisia)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman,
new york, times, serif"> Rahma Sallemi (University of Safx-Tinisia)</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"> Béatrice Arnulphy (IRSIA)</font></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">-- </span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Wajdi Zaghouani</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Research Associate</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Carnegie Mellon University-Qatar, Education City</span><br style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family:
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